Canadian actor Neil Grayston received a Leo nomination for his
supporting role of Martin in the TV series “Godiva's”
(2005-2006). He also portrayed Dr. Douglas Fargo on the American
cable TV series “Eureka” (2006-1010). His TV credits
include recurring roles on CBC's “Edgemont” (2001-2002)
and Fox's “Wonderfalls” (2004) and guest roles in
“Jeremiah,” “Smallville,” “Dead Like
Me,” “The Dead Zone” and “Supernatural.”
He also had an unaccredited part in the Emmy nominated miniseries
“Earthsea” (2004).

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Childhood and Family:

Neil Gordon Grayston was born on March 24, 1981, in New
Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. He attended high school in
Port Moody, British Columbia, and went on to graduate from the
Actor's Working Academy in Vancouver, B.C.

In his spare time, Neil enjoys drawing and snowboarding. He is a
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. Currently, he lives in New Westminster,
British Columbia, with his girlfriend.

Godiva's

Career:

Neil Grayston began acting in high school and turned professional
after graduation. He made his television debut playing William
Collette in “This Shit Is Evil” (2000), an episode of the
Canadian acclaimed crime series “Da Vinci's Inquest”
(1998-2005), which starred Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci. He
went on to break into American TV series with a one stint gig on the
NBC short lived show “UC: Undercover” (2001).

Grayston's first real break arrived when he landed the recurring
role of Jordon Rosen, editor-in-chief of the school newspaper who has
a crush on Shannon, on “Edgemont,” a teen dramatic series
that appeared on CBC from January 4, 2001, to July 21, 2005. Grayston
was also cast in the Canadian TV film “The Time Tunnel”
(2002), starring David Conrad, and made his big screen debut with a
small part in the Canadian teen drama “The Water Game,”
which was written and directed by John Bolton and starred Rochelle
Greenwood, Ben Eberhard and Dawn Perkins. Still in 2002, he appeared
as a prisoner in an episode of Showtime's “Jeremiah”
called “And the Ground, Sown with Salt” and as Russell
Burton in The WB's hit “Smallville” episode titled
“Redux.”

Following a guest spot in Nickelodeon's “Romeo”
(2003), a series starring Zachary Williams, Natashia Williams and
Brittney Wilson, Grayston portrayed Alec in the Fox series
“Wonderfalls” (2004), which starred Caroline Dhavernas.
Also in 2004, he guest starred in Showtime's “Dead Like Me”
and had an unaccredited part in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries
“Earthsea,” which was loosely adapted from the award
winning novel of the same name by Ursula K. Le Guin. “Earthsea”
won a number of Leo Awards and was nominated for an Emmy for
Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a
Special.

In 2005, Grayston landed the role of Martin in the Canadian TV
series “Godiva's,” opposite Erin Karpluk, Stephen Lobo,
Sonja Bennett, Leah Cairns and Noel Fisher. The show ran from March
2005 to June 2006 and Grayston received a Leo nomination for Best
Supporting Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series for his
performance on the episode “The Bigger Man” (2006). 2005
also saw him in an episode of “The Dead Zone” called
“Vanguard.”

After “Godiva's” ended, Grayston was cast as Douglas
Fargo, a junior scientist, in the American cable TV series “Eureka”
(Syfy, 2006-2010), opposite Colin Ferguson, Salli
Richardson-Whitfield, Joe Morton, Jordan Hinson, Ed Quinn, Erica
Cerra, Niall Matter and James Callis. He also portrayed a character
in an episode of “Supernatural” called “Tall Tales”
(2007) and was cast as Stan Maynard in the short film “Stan
Maynard's Best Day Ever” (2008). In 2010, he reprised his role
of Douglas Fargo for an episode of “Warehouse 13” titled
“13.1.”

Grayston is scheduled to appear in the upcoming Canadian series
“The True Heroines” (2011), which will star Jovanna
Huguet, Fiona Vroom and Paula Giroday.